Collins English Readers: They Came to Baghdad (Paperback)

from PhilipJMac

After having read many Agatha Christie mysteries, I had held off reading some of her espionage and spy thrillers. I picked it up because of a bookclub, and I'm glad I gave it a try. It's certainly a departure from her usual mysteries, but it has a delightful heroine at the center of the tale by t...

from Zare

Victoria Jones is a somewhat impulsive but sharp minded (although reckless is, I think, more accurate description) young woman. After meeting mysterious young man she decides to follow him to his new work-place, distant Baghdad. At the same time, world leaders are planning a secret meeting in Bag...

from smik

Originally published in 1951, THEY CAME TO BAGHDAD reflects popular concerns of the time about whether another World War was brewing. He said grumblingly, ‘All right, all right…Get back as soon as you can. I've never seen the market so jumpy. All this damned Communism. War may break out at any ...

from BookConcierge

Adapted from the book jacket: Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks. Into this explosive situation appears Victoria Jones, a young woman with a yearning for love and adventure who ge...

from Auntie-Nanuuq

I liked this piece of Christie's, it was a nice step-away from M. Poirot, Miss Marple, & Tommy/Tuppence....A young woman is fired from her secretarial job for being sloppy & uncaring... While in the park lamenting the loss of income she happens upon a young man whom she falls head-over-heels for....